11th Jun, 2021 10:00
Medals, Militaria, & Country Pursuits to include The Damon Murrin Great Exhibition Collection
Sold for £780
A collection of ephemera relating to the 1893 World’s Fair in Chicago, to include a hand-written diary describing the writer Arthur Walter Carter’s decision to travel to America for one month as part of a group tour with Regent Street Polytechnic (later to spawn the Poly travel company and team up with Sir Henry Lunn as Lunn Poly), his journey by ship as a 2nd class passenger from Southampton to New York, sight-seeing in New York, travelling by train within America, attending a Presidential reception in Philadelphia, as well as visiting the World’s Fair in Chicago, then onwards to Niagara Falls before journeying home. The notebook also includes a pasted-in map of Chicago with notable sites, leaflet from The Polytechnic outlining the tour, the ships programme of entertainment, tickets, an extract from the out-going voyage ‘S.S. New York Gazette’, a leaflet for the Cave of the Winds at Niagara, the Saloon Passenger List for the return journey, and a leaflet for American Line Steamers. a Pennsylvania Railroad timetable with map verso, a New York Central & Hudson River Railroad timetable and a loose-leaf letter written home upon Carter's arrival in New York, dated June 3rd 1893.
Condition Report
Diary – 118 numbered and hand-written pages (both sides), approx. 8 pages towards back with inserts stuck in, approx. 25 blank pages at end; some minor tears, yellowing, creases and foxing to pages; spine and covers sellotaped back together. See images.
No real provenance as the late vendor was an avid collector of everything to do with Great Exhibitions and World’s Fairs, but there are some notes and a typed transcript which imply that publication was considered at one point.
Condition reports must be considered as a matter of opinion and not fact.
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